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Conditionizr reloaded, what every developer has been waiting for
Todd Motto
Oct 24, 2013
Wouldn’t it be ideal to target any browser, mobile browser, mobile device, touch device, screen resolution, operating system and conditionally load...
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Creating an AngularJS Directive from one of your existing plugins scripts
Todd Motto
Oct 7, 2013
Writing scripts for your websites or web apps is often a simple process, you write your script, concatenate the file into your main scripts file an...
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Ultimate guide to learning AngularJS in one day
Todd Motto
Oct 2, 2013
Angular is a client-side MVC/MVVM framework built in JavaScript, essential for modern single page web applications (and even websites). This post i...
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The data-js API for behavioural-binding; stop using selectors in your JavaScript
Todd Motto
Sep 21, 2013
Selectors in JavaScript are bad. The bridge between the DOM communicating with JavaScript is a tough one to cross and in no way modular, but there ...
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Echo.js, simple JavaScript image lazy loading
Todd Motto
Aug 11, 2013
I’m currently working on a project for Intel’s HTML5 Hub in which I require some image lazy-loading for an HTML5 showcase piece that’s high in imag...
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Hacking the HTML5 video element with Suave.js
Todd Motto
Jul 28, 2013
Suave, for elegant HTML5 videos (how they should have been). Suave was built to re-engineer the unstructured mess the HTML5 tag presents. Suave cl...
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Using Grunt and Chrome Workspaces for in-browser development
Todd Motto
Jul 27, 2013
After some great interest in why I ditched Sublime Text 2 for the day to fully code inside Google Chrome, here’s the promised screencast on how to ...
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Psswrd, the show hide password JavaScript plugin
Todd Motto
Jul 20, 2013
Show/hide toggling for password inputs. Psswrd is a neat little script I’ve put together to aid in better user experience when users are completing...
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Is it time to drop jQuery Essentials to learning JavaScript from a jQuery background
Todd Motto
Jun 25, 2013
jQuery has been a godsend to pretty much all of us front-end developers since its release, its intuitive methods, easy functions make light work of...
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Re-engineering the jBar plugin with Immediately-Invoked-Data-Expressions
Todd Motto
Jun 1, 2013
Earlier this week I wrote about IIDE, Immediately-Invoked-Data-Expressions. Not an official term as such but an insight into the explanation of wha...
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Revisiting SVG workflow for performance and progressive development with transparent data URIs
Todd Motto
May 30, 2013
A few months ago I covered a range of SVG techniques that proved to be a great progression for developers looking to ‘get into’ SVG development. Fo...
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IIDE, Immediate-Invoked-Data-Expressions, data-init and using HTML5 to call your JavaScript jQuery
Todd Motto
May 28, 2013
There’s something that’s been at the back of my mind ever since I’ve started writing JavaScript and jQuery, and I think I’ve finally got it down on...
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